It’s been a while since I’ve been in this chair, but it still feels warm from when I was doing this work nearly 15 years ago. As I said in my introduction post, my background in and love for print and online media have been with me for as long as I can remember. That’s why taking the role of editor-in-chief at ETH Investors Club and working on our quarterly magazine is such an important challenge— getting Ethereum ecosystem media right is a Herculean task. I wanted to take a little time out t...

It’s been a while since I’ve been in this chair, but it still feels warm from when I was doing this work nearly 15 years ago. As I said in my introduction post, my background in and love for print and online media have been with me for as long as I can remember. That’s why taking the role of editor-in-chief at ETH Investors Club and working on our quarterly magazine is such an important challenge— getting Ethereum ecosystem media right is a Herculean task. I wanted to take a little time out t...

“I am full of love for every one. And everything is soft and vague and very sad. It is sad, it is sad. But everything has meaning.” - Virginia Wolf. I saw this quote just now and it reminded me why I exist. As I write this on Thursday evening, I am once again taken aback by how inspiring it is to be engulfed by media. I watched this two-hour video essay by the channel Then & Now on the rise and fall of media, and while it was illuminating, it still left me wondering how we can fall in love wi...

“I am full of love for every one. And everything is soft and vague and very sad. It is sad, it is sad. But everything has meaning.” - Virginia Wolf. I saw this quote just now and it reminded me why I exist. As I write this on Thursday evening, I am once again taken aback by how inspiring it is to be engulfed by media. I watched this two-hour video essay by the channel Then & Now on the rise and fall of media, and while it was illuminating, it still left me wondering how we can fall in love wi...

Listen to the Google NotebookML Deep Dive podcast of this piece. Or create your own. Polynya was right; there is a lot of good in crypto. However, it appears crypto’s moral compass may be beyond repair, yet even bigger macro problems remain. Since being back from Devcon, I've had time to think again about the role I can play as social structures and narratives continue to shift toward destruction through chaos. I've also become hyper-aware of the reality that is working in the crypt...

Listen to the Google NotebookML Deep Dive podcast of this piece. Or create your own. Polynya was right; there is a lot of good in crypto. However, it appears crypto’s moral compass may be beyond repair, yet even bigger macro problems remain. Since being back from Devcon, I've had time to think again about the role I can play as social structures and narratives continue to shift toward destruction through chaos. I've also become hyper-aware of the reality that is working in the crypt...

The hero’s journey is more than just an origin story. In the case of crypto that inquires against cultural narratives, it’s well past time for an Apotheosis—a divine climax for what technology holds for our collective futures. FWB FEST24 did that. FWB FEST24 was a call to adventure in the woods, but it was also met with a standoff inside the liminal state between bear and bull we’ve been comfy in for all of 2024. For FWB and many on the Optimism Superchain, this year has been an era of valida...

The hero’s journey is more than just an origin story. In the case of crypto that inquires against cultural narratives, it’s well past time for an Apotheosis—a divine climax for what technology holds for our collective futures. FWB FEST24 did that. FWB FEST24 was a call to adventure in the woods, but it was also met with a standoff inside the liminal state between bear and bull we’ve been comfy in for all of 2024. For FWB and many on the Optimism Superchain, this year has been an era of valida...

This week, a request from Samantha, founder of Humankind Candles, came across my desk to write about how I edit. Perfect timing, too, since I’ve been thinking about the mysterious life of the editor. Maybe I'm blind and just not following many, but I don't see many editors in our space talking about their process. Or perhaps they're not sure it would be interesting enough; who knows? If you're an editor, I'd love to be in a group chat with you!! At the moment, I’m edi...

This week, a request from Samantha, founder of Humankind Candles, came across my desk to write about how I edit. Perfect timing, too, since I’ve been thinking about the mysterious life of the editor. Maybe I'm blind and just not following many, but I don't see many editors in our space talking about their process. Or perhaps they're not sure it would be interesting enough; who knows? If you're an editor, I'd love to be in a group chat with you!! At the moment, I’m edi...

Devcon week in Bangkok is over, and since I have some free time, I thought I would give my thoughts on the week for those who couldn’t attend. This may also be helpful for folks who were actually here but had different experiences than I did. I was beyond excited for this year’s Devcon to be in Bangkok since the moment I heard about it. I had been planning a trip to Thailand for multiple months leading up to the announcement. The location, people, and Ethereum truly showed up to be the top ET...

Devcon week in Bangkok is over, and since I have some free time, I thought I would give my thoughts on the week for those who couldn’t attend. This may also be helpful for folks who were actually here but had different experiences than I did. I was beyond excited for this year’s Devcon to be in Bangkok since the moment I heard about it. I had been planning a trip to Thailand for multiple months leading up to the announcement. The location, people, and Ethereum truly showed up to be the top ET...

I’m often asked what draws me to know and retain information with such confidence. This piece delves into my relation to curiosity online and onchain.While chatting with a friend a few weeks ago, we were discussing token incentives for memecoins. I made an offhand comment about curiosity with the phrase “curiosity rewards always,” which I’d noted here in a previous issue for those eagle-eyed readers and was asked to dig into this a bit more. Since then, I’ve begun to explore my own relationsh...

I’m often asked what draws me to know and retain information with such confidence. This piece delves into my relation to curiosity online and onchain.While chatting with a friend a few weeks ago, we were discussing token incentives for memecoins. I made an offhand comment about curiosity with the phrase “curiosity rewards always,” which I’d noted here in a previous issue for those eagle-eyed readers and was asked to dig into this a bit more. Since then, I’ve begun to explore my own relationsh...

Since the launch of GPT-4 a year ago, I’ve seen developers and AI engineers talk about building agents that autonomously do tasks for you all over YouTube. As is the way these things go, they were super clunky and hardly worked at first. All the installs were super manual, and you had to sift through a sea of documentation to get them to work. See, the thinking here is that agents mean autonomy, and autonomy leads to AGI. So, for a long time now, there’s been a focus on building agents that a...

Since the launch of GPT-4 a year ago, I’ve seen developers and AI engineers talk about building agents that autonomously do tasks for you all over YouTube. As is the way these things go, they were super clunky and hardly worked at first. All the installs were super manual, and you had to sift through a sea of documentation to get them to work. See, the thinking here is that agents mean autonomy, and autonomy leads to AGI. So, for a long time now, there’s been a focus on building agents that a...

Recently, a few people mentioned that I have been self-reflective, writing about connection and inner guidance more frequently. It’s not like I’m all that great at hiding things. Thankfully, I had a chance to talk to some of them about it in person while in Denver a few weeks ago, the importance of introspection and its intersection with community building into the future. It’s true. I’ve been on this deeply personal, introspective journey and am happy to chat briefly about it this week. Ther...

Recently, a few people mentioned that I have been self-reflective, writing about connection and inner guidance more frequently. It’s not like I’m all that great at hiding things. Thankfully, I had a chance to talk to some of them about it in person while in Denver a few weeks ago, the importance of introspection and its intersection with community building into the future. It’s true. I’ve been on this deeply personal, introspective journey and am happy to chat briefly about it this week. Ther...

This week, I participated in admittedly the most anxiety-inducing event I’ve had the pleasure of being part of, Crypto: The Game, Anon Island. Season 2, now on day 8 of 10, has had its fair share of twists and turns, drama, betrayal, and some of the most extreme coordination games. More to come, that’s for sure 👿 Survivor, the 00’s sensation now in its 46th season, is undeniably the most cutthroat, vicious, eyes-glued-to-the-screen type gameshows of the past two decades. And now there’s a ve...

This week, I participated in admittedly the most anxiety-inducing event I’ve had the pleasure of being part of, Crypto: The Game, Anon Island. Season 2, now on day 8 of 10, has had its fair share of twists and turns, drama, betrayal, and some of the most extreme coordination games. More to come, that’s for sure 👿 Survivor, the 00’s sensation now in its 46th season, is undeniably the most cutthroat, vicious, eyes-glued-to-the-screen type gameshows of the past two decades. And now there’s a ve...

Looking at the state of people from the periphery, it’s not hard to see how dire things have gotten. I still wonder if we’ve done enough. I don’t think we have. Therefore, the experiments must continue. I’m constantly considering all the ways in which we grab onto the webs and branches toward one another as we swing through the treacherous lands of the metaverse. I've tried many things in the past couple of years and failed at a few of them to varying degrees. But one throughline keeping...

Looking at the state of people from the periphery, it’s not hard to see how dire things have gotten. I still wonder if we’ve done enough. I don’t think we have. Therefore, the experiments must continue. I’m constantly considering all the ways in which we grab onto the webs and branches toward one another as we swing through the treacherous lands of the metaverse. I've tried many things in the past couple of years and failed at a few of them to varying degrees. But one throughline keeping...

The angelic sacred text of fandom is mystical, filled with subtext, full of whimsy and make-believe. Here, a fandom’s stories are enthusiastically injected with passion shared by millions… this is the power of media we love tapping into. I’ve been wandering through past loves lately, spending time rewatching TV shows I was obsessed with from 2010 to 2017, sitting with the imagination of those stories we once shared. In my opinion, this was truly a golden age of social media, TV, the internet,...

The angelic sacred text of fandom is mystical, filled with subtext, full of whimsy and make-believe. Here, a fandom’s stories are enthusiastically injected with passion shared by millions… this is the power of media we love tapping into. I’ve been wandering through past loves lately, spending time rewatching TV shows I was obsessed with from 2010 to 2017, sitting with the imagination of those stories we once shared. In my opinion, this was truly a golden age of social media, TV, the internet,...